International university cooperation is the main purpose of the International Association of Universities (IAU). Certain problems arise in the field of international cooperation and particularly in the field of assistance. The helping hand easily becomes a dominating hand while the notion of mutual exchange presupposes the existence and…

Since its inception in 1972, the Higher Education Cooperation Act (HECA) is proving to be an effective agent for improving Illinois higher education, and at a nominal cost. Various HECA projects aimed at encouraging international cooperation and increasing access to higher education have involved in some way nearly every public and private college…

Many of New York City's 35 private institutions of higher education are in financial difficulties and need the help of the City. This report by the Council of Higher Educational Institutions in New York City (CHEI) outlines 12 steps that can be taken to assist these institutions. These steps include: (1) absorption by the City University of New…

The Mid-continent Regional Educational Laboratory's Cooperative Urban Teacher Education (CUTE) program, a cooperative field experience program for the recruitment and training of teachers for the inner city, is the focus for discussion of teacher education in this collection of speeches made at the Eighth National Clinic of the Association for…

In the fall of 1966, the USOE Bureau of Research established the Consortium Research Development (CORD) Program, which was designed to assist small institutions of higher education in educational research and development activities. This program consisted of 26 small colleges co-linked together to form 6 consortia for carrying on instructional…

As part of the West Virginia phase of the Multi-State Teacher Education Project (M-STEP), the Pilot Center for Student Teaching was operated from 1966-68 to improve the laboratory experiences of student teachers through increased cooperative participation of five higher education institutions, the Kanawha County Public Schools, and the State…

Project Quest, "New Designs for Innovative Approaches to Health Instruction through Inter-District Planning", is a comprehensive health instruction program (K-12) which was developed on a systems approach. Five major student objectives were established: (1) physical health, (2) mental health, (3) social health, (4) community health, and (5)…

In Canada, Community Radio is beginning to reassert itself as local groups demand access to the airwaves to share information about their own cultures and communities, to devise their own entertainment, and to participate in dialogues with others. Since funds for Community Radio are scarce and programing expensive, and effort is underway to…

This document presents the report of the Executive Director of the Nashville University Center (NUC) for the academic year 1972-1973. Following an overview of the Nashville University Center in 1972-73, emphasis is placed on fine arts in the Center, the fine arts festival, library cooperation in the Center, cross-registration, departmental…

This inventory-directory provides information on the formal cooperative arrangements of colleges and universities in the State University of New York system. Each entry gives the title of arrangement, names the coordinator or contact person, the beginning date, the participating institutions, and describes the purposes of the arrangement or…

The objective of this study was to increase understanding about the nature and processes of interinstitutional cooperation in higher education, particularly as related to international educational development, and to suggest guidelines for the improvement of cooperative endeavors. The study deals with 10 representative member institutions of the…

The need for improved support service programs in community colleges is explored, and several suggestions are made relating to new procedures for selecting and training recruiters and further development of "active" rather than "passive" recruiting programs. A formal and an informal model for interinstitutional cooperation is presented. (DB)

This document presents a review of the activities of the Council of Ontario Universities during academic year 1970-71. Topics discussed in the booklets include information systems, funding formula for the universities, university relations with government, university expansion, graduate education development, engineering education development,…

This document presents a review of the activities of the Committee of Presidents of Universities of Ontario during the academic year 1967-68. During that academic year, great progress was made toward increased interinstitutional cooperation and coordination, specifically in the areas of graduate level planning, shared library resources, common…

This document presents the results of a feasibility study conducted by the Consortium for Development of Research Potential in Education (CORD) to determine if the 5 institutions in the Detroit area that comprise CORD can pool their resources to provide a coordinated institute for re-educating the conventionally trained teachers in multicultural…